[EXTERNAL] Re: Unable to use 'sip-build --debug'

[Phil Thompson]

I will add support (probably SIP v6.1) that will allow you to do...

python -m sipbuild.tools.build

The purpose of the check for a debug build is to avoid a conflict with 
the use of the limited API. I'm pretty sure this conflict was removed in 
Python v3.8 (I'll try and resolve it in v6.1).

In the meantime you can try setting the 'py_debug' project option in 
pyproject.toml. This overrides SIP's test for whether it is running 
under a debug build of Python.

Phil

On 04/03/2021 14:17, Gehlhaar, Daniel Kurt wrote:
> Thank you, Phil.
> 
> Is there any way to deliver these scripts as Python scripts so I can
> do "python sip-install.py" versus "python_d sip-install.py"?  That
> seems an easy solution unless I am missing something.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 4:19 AM
> To: Gehlhaar, Daniel Kurt <dan.gehlhaar at pfizer.com>
> Cc: 'pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com' <pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Unable to use 'sip-build --debug'
> 
> On 03/03/2021 16:52, Gehlhaar, Daniel Kurt wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> I am unable to use "sip-build --debug" to build debuggable bindings
>> for my custom project. I am using sip installed through the commands:
>> 
>> pip install PyQt-builder
>> pip install PyQt5-sip
>> 
>> and then by doing 'sip-install' in the PyQt5 source directory.
>> 
>> The error I get is, "sip-build: A debug version of Python must be used
>> when building a debug version of the <project> bindings".  My Python
>> installation has both debug (python_d.exe) and optimized (python.exe)
>> versions installed, as well as the corresponding libraries. However,
>> it appears that sip-build is installed as an executable (this is
>> Windows) so I can't choose my Python interpreter (I don't think?)
>> because it is baked in (?).
> 
> You implicitly choose it when you chose the version of pip to install 
> it.
> 
> Recent versions of Python have changed the way Windows debug versions
> are handled. This is not yet reflected in SIP.
> 
>> Anyways it's important for my build system, to allow debug and
>> optimized builds to be able to be done side by side, so I need a way
>> to toggle between these. With sip v4, I could simply do the code
>> generation and then choose my own compiler options and link libraries,
>> to select debug versus optimized Python.
> 
> Use sip-build with the --no-make option and run nmake overriding make
> variables on the command line (I'm assuming nmake works the same was
> as make in this respect).
> 
> Phil